Why People are Involved in and Committed to Online Knowledge-Sharing Communities

Wu, Manli; Kang, Lele; Shi, Yani; Zhao, J. Leon; Liang, Liang

doi:10.4018/jgim.2019040105

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“…People from different cultures may have different reactions and behaviors in response to stimuli. For instance, people from a collectivist culture may attach more importance to social relationships than those from an individualist culture [ 59 ]. Future research could collect data from other countries to re-test the current research model.…”

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What Drives People to Share Misinformation on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Perspective

2022

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(1) Background: Misinformation is prevalent on social media in the age of COVID-19, exacerbating the threat of the pandemic. Uncovering the processes underlying people’s misinformation sharing using social media assists people to cope with misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study extends the stimulus-organism-response framework to examine how individuals’ social media dependency relates to their misinformation sharing behavior, with a focus on the underlying processes. (2) Methods: A total of 393 valid questionnaires were collected using a survey method to test the proposed research model. (3) Results: The results demonstrate that informational dependency and social dependency engender both positive and negative cognitive states, namely perceived information timeliness, perceived socialization and social overload, which then invoke positive as well as negative affect. What is more, the results show that both positive affect and negative affect can engender misinformation sharing. (4) Conclusions: Theoretically, this study uncovers the processes that lead to misinformation sharing on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Practically, this study provides actionable guidelines on how to manage social media usage and social media content to cope with misinformation sharing during the pandemic.

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“…We controlled for gender, age, and education because these factors were found to play important roles in individuals’ information sharing [ 6 , 15 ]. Since technology usage experience may affect individuals’ information sharing behavior [ 59 ], social media usage experience was also included as a control variable.…”

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“…Besides, Lee et al (2020) also argued that the development of human capital through training could create trust and reciprocity among employees, which is essential for teamwork, in turn, for knowledge sharing. Several scholars (e.g., Wu et al, 2019;Du et al, 2011) also suggest that interpersonal trust and the norm of reciprocity are important contextual factors. However, the substantial effect of training & development was not evident in moderating the relationship between organizational culture and leadership regarding knowledge sharing.…”

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Linkage Between Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Sharing in MNCs

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Hossain

Islam

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Journal of Global Information Management

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The paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on the integrated effect of organizational factors on knowledge sharing, taking the moderating effect of training and development. The proposed hypotheses were tested with structural equations modeling using self-reports of 200 personnel working in Bngladesh-based MNCs. The organizational factors such as respect for people, job stability, aggressiveness, transformational leadership, transactional leadership and decentralization have a direct influence on knowledge sharing. The substantial effect of training and development was not evident in moderating the relationship between organizational factors and knowledge sharing. However, this study reveals that training and development moderates only the relationship between team orientation and knowledge sharing. the findings broaden the understanding of the impact of organizational culture, leadership, and training and development, and knowledge sharin. This study helps managers to formulate strategies and provide new knowledge to researchers to look further into this field.

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“…Previous literature on the Q&A communities has proposed various internal factors to member engagement (Wu et al, 2019;Y. Zhao et al, 2021).…”

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An Exploration Study on the Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Q&A Communities

Huang

Wang

2022

Journal of Global Information Management

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This work aims to document a two-sided impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online question and answer communities. It implements empirical analyses on subsidiary communities affiliating to the Stack Exchange network. Using a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of the pandemic on community volume (the counts of questions and answers) and responsiveness (the likelihood of questions to be answered), this work has the following discoveries. First, the community volume grows, both in questions and answers, driven by a prolonged time of staying at home during the pandemic. Second, the community responsiveness declines, driven by an influx of new community members during the pandemic, which is also a result of the prolonged time of staying at home. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Why People are Involved in and Committed to Online Knowledge-Sharing Communities

Cited by 13 publications

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What Drives People to Share Misinformation on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Perspective

What Drives People to Share Misinformation on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Perspective

Linkage Between Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Sharing in MNCs

An Exploration Study on the Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Q&A Communities

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